Assessment in Sculpture

Contemporary sculpture is a broad and diverse field that includes object making, large-scale architectural installation, performance-based work, time-based work, and time-based media.

Sculpture
Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

BFA in Sculpture Key Learning Outcomes

  • Mastery of the craft of drawing and painting, knowledge and experience of the full range of possibilities of the various materials and methods both traditional and newly developed.

  • Ability to analyze works of art, to evaluate them critically and to understand the context in which work is made and viewed.

  • Ability to understand the formal aspects of painting and drawing and apply them to a specific aesthetic intention.

  • Understanding the conventions of the discipline.

  • Understanding the issues of representation and abstraction.

  • Understanding how meaning is created by the integration of formal, technical and conceptual decisions.

  • Exploration of the expressive possibilities if the discipline with the knowledge of the full range of conceptual modes and material manipulations possible.

  • Understanding how innovations in the field are the outcome of first acknowledging and then questioning existing boundaries and conventions.

  • Ability to articulate ideas in written and oral formats. Development of artist statements and grant proposals.

  • Ability to work independently, identify areas of research towards the development of a focused and personal direction.

  • Understanding the discipline of painting as it relates to other forms of cultural production in a contemporary, multi-cultural and international field

MFA in Sculpture Key Learning Outcomes

  • Mastery of the craft of drawing and sculpture, knowledge and experience of the full range of possibilities of the various materials and methods both traditional and newly developed.

  • Ability to work independently, identify areas of research towards the development of a focused and individual direction.

  • Understanding the discipline as it relates to other forms of cultural production in contemporary, multi-cultural and international fields, Ability to analyze works of art. To evaluate them critically and to understand the context in which work is made and viewed.

  • Ability to understand the formal aspects of the field and apply them to a specific aesthetic intention.

  • Exploration of the expressive possibilities with the knowledge of the full range of conceptual modes and material manipulations possible.

  • Understanding how innovations in the field are the outcome of first acknowledging and then questioning existing boundaries and conventions.

  • Knowledge of historical precedents in the field.

  • Knowledge of theories within the discipline, including Modern and Post-Modern critical theory.

  • Awareness of the most critical developments in the discipline.

  • Ability to articulate ideas in written and oral formats. Development of thesis statements, grant proposals and scholarly papers.